Frances Wilbraham

Frances Maria Wilbraham was born on 30 June 1815 at Rode Hall, Cheshire, the fifth daughter of Randle Wilbraham of Rode Hall, son of Richard Wilbraham-Bootle, and Sibylla Egerton. Her brother was General Sir Richard Wilbraham {{Postnom|KCB}}.{{Cite journal |last=Simpson |first=Frank |date=2018 |title=A few Cheshire worthies |url=https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/details.xhtml?recordId=3204714 |journal=Journal of the Chester Archaeological Society |language=en |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=106136 |doi=10.5284/1070075}}

During the 1866 cholera epidemic in Chester, Frances and Emily Ayckbowm volunteered to run a hospital for cholera victims. Her work caused her to be dubbed the "Florence Nightingale of Chester" by Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster.

Wilbraham wrote a number of works of historical fiction.{{Cite web |title=Author: Frances Maria Wilbraham |url=https://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_author.php?aid=2561 |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=At the Circulating Library A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901}} She also wrote numerous stories for The Monthly Packet, edited by her friend Charlotte Yonge.{{Cite book |last=Twemlow |first=Francis Randle |url=http://archive.org/details/twemlowstheirwiv00twem |title=Twemlows, their wives and their homes from original records |date=1910 |publisher=Wolverhampton, Whitehead Bros. |others=Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center}} Her recollections of the cholera epidemic were published as Streets and Lanes of a City (1871), initially under the name Amy Dutton.

Frances Maria Wilbraham died on 26 June 1905 in Chester.

1. For and Against: or, Queen Margaret's Badge. A Domestic Chronicle of the Fifteenth Century.  2 vol.  London: John W. Parker, 1858.
2. The Young Breton Volunteer: A Tale of 1851.  1 vol.  London: Mozley and Co., 1860.
3. The Cheshire Pilgrims: or, Sketches of Crusading Life in the Thirteenth Century.  1 vol.  London: John Morgan, 1862.
4. Not Clever, and Other Stories.  1 vol.  London: Groombridge, 1864.
5. Phil Thorndyke's adventures, 1870s.
6. Streets and Lanes of a City, 1871.
7. Hal the Barge Boy: A Sketch from Life, 1883.{{Cite book |last=Allibone |first=S. Austin (Samuel Austin) |url=http://archive.org/details/acriticaldictio03alligoog |title=A critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors, living and deceased, from the earliest account to the latter half of the nineteenth century. Containing over forty-six thousand articles (authors), with forty indexes of subjects |date=1888 |publisher=Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott company |others=University of Michigan}}
8. The sere and yellow leaf : thoughts and recollections for old and young, 1884.
9. What is Right, Comes Right.  1 vol.  London: Joseph Masters, 1884.

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